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Linux Mint is Adding a Native ‘Night Light’ Feature to Cinnamon

Linux Mint has announced it’s adding a native Night Light feature to the Cinnamon desktop. Earlier versions of Linux Mint included a third-party app called Redshift to provide similar ‘blue light’ filtering functionality. However, when […]

3 November 2024

COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Brings More Improvements

System76’s COSMIC desktop environment continues to take shape, with a third alpha snapshot now available for testing. The first alpha brought the core essentials, the second alpha delivered stack of new features, and this third […]

1 November 2024
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Thanks to AI, Python is Now the #1 Language on GitHub

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub, according to the code-hosting platform’s latest Octoverse report. The company attributes this momentum to a massive influx of “data science and machine learning on GitHub”, […]

31 October 2024

SuperTuxKart 1.5 Beta Brings Benchmark Test, UI Tweaks + More

It’s hallowe’en, and there’s a frightfully good treat waiting for fans of the free, open-source racing game SuperTuxKart – a new beta! The first beta of SuperTuxKart 1.5 offers an array of improvements, touching everything […]

31 October 2024
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Google Chrome Update Offers More Control Over Memory Usage

The latest stable update to Google Chrome improves its Memory Saver with new controls that could, depending on your workflow and hardware, help reduce the browser’s memory footprint. And some would say it needs it. […]

30 October 2024
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Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Build Change

Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 […]

30 October 2024
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Audacity 3.7 Delivers Bug Fixes, Improves Compatibility with Linux

Music makers, podcast producers, and amateur audio enthusiasts alike will be pleased to hear a new version of Audacity is out – and it fixes a lot of bugs. Audacity 3.7.0 marks a new series […]

30 October 2024

Pre-Orders Open for Pine64’s e-Ink Linux Tablet

Forget Amazon’s recent Kindle refresh, the most exciting e-ink device around is the PineNote from prolific open-source hardware makers Pine64. I reported last month that Pine64 had confirmed a new PineNote production run, the first […]

30 October 2024

Mousam is a Detailed Desktop Weather App for Linux

Being a Linux nerd I rarely go outside —that’s a joke— but knowing what the weather is doing beyond my basement walls —still a joke— is useful – if only because it usually gives me […]

30 October 2024
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ONLYOFFICE 8.2 Improves Startup Times, Adds New Theme + More

A big update to ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux is available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.2 offers a clutch of new features, several performance gains, and a miscellany […]

29 October 2024

Mozilla Firefox 132 Delivers a Modest Set of Changes

Mozilla Firefox 132 is available to download today, arriving a couple of weeks ahead of the browser’s big 20th anniversary1 milestone. But anyone hoping Firefox 132 would prove itself a veritable birthday piñata, fit to […]

29 October 2024

Tiling Shell Update Adds Custom Window Border Colour + More

I’m a fan of the Tiling Shell GNOME Shell extension because it’s both good at what it does, but good at not being one-size-fits-all: users can tile window using a mouse and drop zones, with […]

27 October 2024